NAILS hammered into a tree at Bayswater’s Halliday Park could have seriously injured contractors employed to cut it down says council CEO Francesca Lefante.
In a letter to pro-trees activist Greg Smith dismissing his claim that a contractor had driven threateningly at him while he protested the century-old trees’ axing, Ms Lefante said the presence of the nails “had the potential to damage machinery or cause injury to the workers”.
While Ms Lefante stated the nails had been hammered in by “unknown parties” Mr Smith regards her inclusion of the statement in her letter as a “backhanded accusation”.
He says he’d known nothing of any nails in any tree until Ms Lefante raised it in her letter, two months after he’d complained about being reversed into.
He wonders why there has been no reference in other council documents to such a serious incident, and why no photos have been published.
“They’re not so keen on investigation, and more keen on accusation,” he sighs. He says the council’s investigation of his claim probably amounted to it asking the contractor whether he’d driven threateningly and taken him at his word.
by DAVID BELL
Perth Voice Interactive 
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